sexta-feira, 19 de novembro de 2021


Michael Keaton Filmed Vulture Scenes This Week?!?

Posted: 19 Nov 2021 10:20 AM PST

Michael Keaton says he strapped on the Vulture wings this week but the question is, for what? Appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live Wednesday night, the actor best known for playing Beetlejuice and Batman spoke a little bit about reprising the latter for The Flash and then about his role in 2017's Spider-Man: Homecoming. He…

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CDC Finds No Smallpox in Frozen Vials Suspiciously Labeled ‘Smallpox’

Posted: 19 Nov 2021 10:01 AM PST

Days after a Pennsylvania lab was locked down because a worker discovered vials labeled "smallpox" in a freezer, the CDC says there's no reason to fear a viral outbreak. Late Thursday night, federal officials announced that the vials did not contain the deadly and eradicated variola virus. Instead, they held a related…

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Feral Hogs Are Causing Irreversible Harm to Salt Marshes

Posted: 19 Nov 2021 09:40 AM PST

New research shows that feral hogs are hungry wrecking balls in the Southeast's salt marshes. Their appetite for mussels could end up undoing a key symbiotic relation that keeps marshland intact, right at a time when coastal ecosystems are coming under increasing pressure from climate change. As if we needed any more…

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DogPhone Will Let Dog Use Phone

Posted: 19 Nov 2021 09:32 AM PST

So far, 2021 has been a banner year for nonsense words. The metaverse—more of a concept than an actual entity at this point—was embraced as the central initiative of Facebook Meta; NFTs, which are quite literally intangible assets, have taken on a life of their own, and now, DogPhone is here to be exactly what it…

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Perseverance Rover Captures Awesome Video of Helicopter Flying on Mars

Posted: 19 Nov 2021 09:10 AM PST

Though Ingenuity continues to break its own records as the first powered, controlled flying machine on another planet, we haven't had have much visual evidence of its exploits. There's the telemetry data that NASA scientists receive on Earth, but not much in the way of photos and videos. Happily, NASA has now released…

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Scarlett Johansson Is Working on a "Top-Secret" Marvel Project That Somehow Isn't Black Widow

Posted: 19 Nov 2021 09:00 AM PST

In a ceremony held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel last night, Scarlett Johansson become the 35th actor to win the American Cinematheque Award, which is "presented annually to an extraordinary artist currently making a significant contribution to the art of the Moving Picture." People who came to praise her and her work…

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Google's Pixel Stand 2 Finally Gets Listed for Pre-Order

Posted: 19 Nov 2021 08:25 AM PST

While it wasn't available when the Pixel 6 first went on sale last month, Google has finally added an official listing for the Pixel Stand 2 on the Google Store.

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Cowboy Bebop's Tone Was the Biggest Challenge for Showrunner André Nemec

Posted: 19 Nov 2021 08:15 AM PST

From the moment that Netflix's live-action adaptation of Cowboy Bebop was announced, fans of the original anime wanted to know what showrunner André Nemec could possibly bring to the classic story that wasn't already baked into the source material. Rather than simply wondering, io9 asked Nemec directly.

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House Passes First Major Climate Legislation in 12 Years—But Don't Celebrate Just Yet

Posted: 19 Nov 2021 08:03 AM PST

The House of Representatives just narrowly passed a more than $2 trillion spending package that will include the first true climate change legislation passed since 2009.

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Celebrate Star Wars' Most Infamous Holiday Any Day With This Cookbook

Posted: 19 Nov 2021 07:30 AM PST

George Lucas once told Mark Hamill, "If I could find every copy of that holiday special, I'd smash them with a hammer." Lucus was referring to, of course, the legendarily awful Star Wars Holiday Special, which aired once in 1978 and has never been seen in an official capacity since. If he had, then I would have been…

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Updates From Spider-Man: No Way Home, Resident Evil, and More

Posted: 19 Nov 2021 06:40 AM PST

The western remake of Train to Busan may get a truly dreadful title. Neo and Trinity are on the march in another new Matrix: Resurrections poster. Video game icon Earthworm Jim is getting a new animated series. Plus, another look behind-the-scenes on Hawkeye. To me, my spoilers!

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The Crucifixion of the Cable Guy

Posted: 19 Nov 2021 06:30 AM PST

Just as the U.S. barreled toward 2 million confirmed covid-19 cases in mid-2020, Charter Communications gave a carefully worded pat on the back to its "employees" who kept the country connected in dire times. "They've been asked to go well above and beyond the regular duties and they've delivered easing the strain for…

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The Real Reason Gas Prices Are So High Right Now

Posted: 19 Nov 2021 06:05 AM PST

On Wednesday, amid a fresh surge in gas prices, the Biden administration announced that it had asked the FTC to investigate whether oil and gas companies were doing anything illegal to manipulate prices. Republicans have countered that it's a cheap political stunt and blamed President Joe Biden's energy policies.

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Austria to Require Covid-19 Vaccinations for Everybody in February

Posted: 19 Nov 2021 03:15 AM PST

Several European countries introduced new restrictions this week on people who refuse to get vaccinated against covid-19, and there was even an announcement from Austria on Friday that covid-19 vaccinations will become mandatory in February.

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Apple to Bring Employees Back to Office on Feb. 1 and Allow Some Remote Work

Posted: 18 Nov 2021 08:13 PM PST

The boss has spoken (again): Apple employees will return to the office on Feb. 1, 2022.

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Hawkeye's Old School Costume Gets a New School Shout Out

Posted: 18 Nov 2021 04:30 PM PST

One of the things that makes Hawkeye of the Marvel Cinematic Universe so unique is that he's not unique. He's just a regular person, same as you and me. He doesn't have a super suit or come from outer space. Hawkeye is a human being who just so happens to be great with a bow and arrow. And that regular-guy persona…

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Diplomacy Turns (Hilariously) Horrifying in Short Film Hand in Hand

Posted: 18 Nov 2021 03:50 PM PST

A diplomatic meeting between two parties is tense, but seemingly successful—until the leaders rise to shake hands in front of the assembled group as flashbulbs pop and cameras roll. A firm handshake is one thing, but the characters in Ennio Ruschetti's short film Hand in Hand take it to an extreme new level.

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9 States Investigating Meta Over What Mark Zuckerberg Is Doing to Your Kids

Posted: 18 Nov 2021 03:25 PM PST

A bipartisan coalition of at least nine state attorney generals are investigating Meta over the potentially harmful effects Facebook and Instagram have on young users.

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S&P Trying to Snag Some of That Snazzy Meme Stock Energy by Mining Twitter

Posted: 18 Nov 2021 03:10 PM PST

The S&P Dow Jones Indices is monitoring stock Twitter in real-time to see how positively people feel about 200 S&P 500 companies (Tesla) with the top sentiment scores. Today, it launched two Twitter sentiment analysis tools to measure the level of positivity toward companies (or their profit potential) via…

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MediaTek Aims to Beat Qualcomm With New Flagship Smartphone Chip

Posted: 18 Nov 2021 03:00 PM PST

MediaTek's smartphone chips typically play second fiddle to Qualcomm's Snapdragon processors, but MediaTek just announced its new flagship Dimensity 9000 system-on-chip, and it features a number of notable firsts.

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DuckDuckGo Now Stops Android Apps From Snooping On Your Data

Posted: 18 Nov 2021 02:45 PM PST

If you're tired of the apps on your Android device doggedly tracking every move you make even after opting out, then good news. On Thursday, the privacy pros at DuckDuckGo announced a new feature meant to kneecap the invasive trackers and third-party players that might come bundled with the apps they download.

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Covid-19 Boosters for All Are On the Way

Posted: 18 Nov 2021 02:35 PM PST

Federal health officials are expected to sanction covid-19 boosters for most Americans this week—a decision that's become well-supported by the science. While the original shots still provide plenty of protection, booster doses are clearly restoring or even surpassing the high levels of effectiveness seen against…

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Watch This Incredibly Romantic Venom: Let There Be Carnage Deleted Scene

Posted: 18 Nov 2021 02:30 PM PST

Although fans have debated about the nature of the relationship between Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy) and the alien that lives inside him in the two Venom movies, sequel director Andy Serkis explicitly called Let There Be Carnage a "love story." This makes the fact that this clip, released by Vudu, was taken out of the…

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These Are the Gadgets We're Giving This Year

Posted: 18 Nov 2021 02:10 PM PST

The fourth episode of Gizmodo's podcast Gadgettes just dropped, and this week, we're getting ready for the holidays. Your hosts, Gizmodo reporter Florence Ion and senior editor Caitlin McGarry, womansplain the latest gadgets we're testing and reviewing. Usually, we interview our fellow Gizmodo reporters about the…

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The Search for Life Around Alpha Centauri Just Took a Major Leap Forward

Posted: 18 Nov 2021 01:46 PM PST

Our nearest neighbor, Alpha Centauri, is 4.37 light-years from Earth, which is super close from a cosmological perspective but achingly far from a human point of view. A new telescope promises to bring this intriguing star system, and any habitable planets it holds, into closer view.

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